iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ve been digital sculpting successfully for a while, so I’m gonna try doing it irl!

photo of 7 unopened blocks of Sculpey oven-bake clay in red, white, and black

a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

just want to share this tiny polymer clay Praedius that @bubblepaints.bsky.social made for me sometime in the 2000s. he's been sitting on or near my desk for something like two decades. love this little dude.

photo of a small grey, red, and black polymer clay figurine with a grumpy face standing on a keyboard

photo of a small grey, red, and black polymer clay figurine standing on a keyboard, facing away from the camera

photo of a small grey, red, and black polymer clay figurine with a grumpy face, being held by a hand

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I had a dream that I watched someone climb up and slit the throat of a flock camera with a katana at a train station

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

stoked to be seeing Starbomb tonight!

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

on 9/11 I was in high school learning algebra 2 and someone came in the room and told the teacher that “something was happening” and that he should turn on the news. my teacher said no, because this was math class, not social studies. (I bet he felt a way about that later)

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

deleted my last post because I was Too Mad (still kinda mad, but not mad enough to keep wanting to think about it) AI still sucks 👎

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the Sensory Rooms vrchat world by kewlbunny got a big update! I spent a TON of time in there when it was new. I played the update for almost two hours last night, but my game crashed and I hadn’t saved for most of it. u_u can’t wait to get off work and regain my lost progress!!

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

very very slowly, the vrchat gelerts are coming together

unity screenshot of 11 bipedal, T-posting, neopets gelert 3D models in different paint brush colors. the colors are baby, grey, split, yellow, pepsi blue, faerie, blue, red, striped, purple, and green.

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I make art for fun and nobody can stop me (except me, sometimes)

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

got a Friday badge for PAX West just so I could see neopets people and get neopets things!

closeup photo of neopets merch, including an enamel pin featuring a noil petpet inside a large blue computer monitor and a keychain tag that says “struck it rich on the neopian stock market” placed on a desk mat featuring a red kougra, a yellow kacheek, a green shoyru, and a blue aisha tiled on a purple background

photo of a neopets desk mat featuring a red kougra, a yellow kacheek, a green shoyru, and a blue aisha tiled on a rainbow background with yellow stars

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

my neopet can have an espresso martini, as a treat

neopets screenshot showing the customization for Lutired the grey lutari. he has black hair and is wearing all black, holding what appears to be an espresso martini while frowning under a personal raincloud that has created a puddle in the middle of an otherwise very flame-filled kitchen. his petpet is Tutired the tattoo rock.

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

apparently gumroad doesn’t pay out artists on its platform until they reach $100 in sales now? I’ve had $33 sitting in there for a while and I was wondering why it hadn’t dropped into my account. sorry my side hustle isn’t hustly enough for you, gumroad. I’ll be switching to something else.

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

face reveal I guess?? I don’t normally put photos of myself up here but I really like this one my friend got before we headed into the renaissance faire on Friday.

photo of a person in purple and green renaissance faire garb, throwing metal horns with one hand while holding a staff covered in fake greenery and “worm on a string” with the other.

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

manifesting going to mff this year

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

summer is very slow where I work so I spend my spare time drawing. I started with the dragon in the mug so I would have an easy answer to "what are you drawing?" the dolphin is my half of an art trade with a coworker. it's done with only red and blue .7 mechanical pencil, which exists!?

pencil drawing of a smiling dragon lounging in a coffee mug (or a tea cup, if you prefer). the dragon has wings, whiskers, long claws on its (three visible) feet, and spikes down its back and tail.

colored pencil drawing done entirely in red and blue of a dolphin and a lobster-like creature with a :3 face. there is an open treasure chest of gems with a starfish on top, a clam, some sand dollars, and another starfish in the sand around the lobster.

photo of red and blue refill leads for .7 mechanical pencils

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I spend a lot of time playing Fish! in VRChat, so I spend a lot of time staring at the world thumbnail as it loads in. The most recent two are definitely edited gen.AI, which is incredibly disappointing. They got weird details and broken lines, and I don't like looking at them. #vrchat #vrchatfish

closeup of the leviathan featured in the thumbnail of the game Fish! in vrchat, with two areas circled in green. the circle on the left highlights the fin ending in an abrupt, squared off end where it meets the water. the circle on the right shows the back tooth following the same lines as the side of the face and whisker, which in turn follows the same line into the bottom jaw. there is a lot of asymmetry in the teeth and whiskers.

closeup of the character featured in the thumbnail of the game Fish! in vrchat, with three areas circled in pink. the first circle shows her lip is pointed where a pointed tooth should be instead. the second circle highlights line details in the scarf that don't make sense. the third circle shows her hair fading completely into the background.

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I’ve enjoyed the small break in bad news for a wholesome animal meme and drew local cryptid Jimothy in my spare time at work. (unfortunately, also I spilled water all over it)

photo of a pencil drawing in a sketchbook of Jimothy the raccoon, with lots of scratchy vertical lines.

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I’ve become a cuffed-sleeve flannel person (just in time for summer)

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

happy 23rd birthday to my favorite neopet!

pencil drawing of a grumpy looking anthropomorphic neopets gelert holding a heart shaped balloon that says “baby’s 2nd birthday,” but the balloon has been edited to say “baby’s 23rd birthday”

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

in this house we have the phrase "wind waker-ass fuck" to describe any character who is designed with a normal to large sized upper body, with tiny little legs (like pretty much everyone in the legend of zelda: wind waker)

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

the gelert model is finally starting to look like it's supposed to! today I did UV maps, which means I can start playing with colors.

unity screenshot of five anthropomorphic neopets gelerts T-posing on a grey and blue grid background. they are all different colors: dark blue, yellow, red, blue, and green.

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I went to get a coffee today and the barista was wearing a metal band t-shirt I couldn't read the logo of, while I was also wearing a metal band t-shirt that they probably couldn't read the logo of. we nodded in music preference solidarity as they handed off my latte. good human interaction!

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Praedius is turning 23 next week so I am making him new art (he is thrilled)

photo of an unfinished pencil sketch in a 2000s emo style, showing an anthropomorphic neopets gelert holding a balloon string that does not yet have a balloon drawn attached to it

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

gelert progress! I can't put this guy up for download with the pepsi logo on him so he'll just be public in the neopia central vrchat world when he's done (basic colored ones will find their way to gumroad at some point) all my gelert OCs have five fingers so this one does too, sorry

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

dressed like I was heading to a metal concert but was actually just going to pick up my meds and grab a coffee. got a compliment on my outfit inside the medical center by a person who was radiating good vibes and wearing rainbow leopard print. it's a good day (happy pride month)

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

workin on this guy in the pepsi gelert colors (heck yeah you bet he'll have a toggleable collar)

blender screenshot of an unfinished 3D model of a blue neopets gelert, from the shoulders up.

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I'm throwing in the towel after an hour an a half of just trying to complete ONE game of Attack on Altador. it has reset itself several rounds into every single game I attempt, while I'm sitting with folded hands watching it crawl at a snail's pace. these achievements are otherwise so EASY UGH

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

every year I consider art fight and every year I am reminded that I have never made a ref sheet for any of my characters, ever

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

"arttimo, what's your favorite neopet?" you ask. "it's acara" I answer, over my digital workbench full of gelerts.

blender screenshot showing an unfinished 3D model of the head of a neopets gelert.

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I work with 18-20 year olds and today was June 7th, so happy 67 day to those who celebrate

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I staked out a high vantage point to watch some cool light shows at furality's club FYNN until way too late last night. #furality

vrchat photo, taken as a selfie, showing the furality club fynn dance floor, lit up yellow with orange point lights. the name zenko is above the dj booth.

vrchat photo showing the furality club fynn dance floor, lit with green lasers and panels showing a dachshund flying in a red airplane. the name kadachii is displayed on the dj booth.

vrchat photo showing the furality club fynn dance floor, lit by pink and green lasers and a large glowing white triple cube. the dj is daratomic.

vrchat photo, taken as a selfie, showing the furality club fynn dance floor, lit up with red point lights and flames. the name ashtalon is displayed on the dj booth.

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

When I joined neopets in 2003, the first pet name I tried to create was “Shadow,” which was of course taken. Finally, two decades later, Shadow finally exists! Good of him to finally show up, just in time for pride month. yes good another gelert OC to rotate endlessly in my head

neopets screenshot of the pet lookup for wSHADOWw the gelert with text that reads “wSHADOWw has a petpet! Mossball the green spyder and its snailien”

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

yesterday I was antsy that furality hadn't released a con badge asset, so I started making my own. a few hours in, I found that they actually HAD released official badges, and I had missed the post while at work. oops! today I started filling in the badge ribbons.

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

pride month is soon and I wanna see your gayest neopet (this is mine)

neopets screenshot of Lebesian the orange acara. she is standing in front of a lesbian flag tapestry and is surrounded by plants, wearing a plaid jacket and jeans. her petpet is an acko named Sapphosaurus, who is 1063 days and 21 hours old.

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I sent in a ticket after sending a neocash item to the wrong person, and not only was the response super fast despite it being after midnight, but this extra little note really made my day!! :3 (I should probably make more comics lol)

email screenshot from neopets support that reads “hi arttimo, there’s been a new update on your ticket. This could be a reply from our own team or your own recent response. Hi Arttimo, Sorry about the delays, your items should now be in your NC inventory. Have fun playing!! PS. Big fan of Praedius and your comics! Jessie J. | Neopets Customer Support”

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

in case you ever had doubts, I have not, and will not, ever use ai in any of my art-making processes!

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

My anti-man-talking-to-me outfit didn’t work on an older gentleman at the bus stop who looked at my spiked collar, knee high Chucks, and shirt emblazoned with “DEAD INSIDE” and decided to ask if I was in theater because I was dressed “Shakespearean.” chat, I was baffled

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I have *loved* playing phone tag with the stroke clinic these last few weeks, but I grow weary of not knowing if the busted artery in my neck is still busted (I assume it is because it still hurts)

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

upset that the joints of my hands hurt today, the supposed day of Good Joints (happy birthday, stoners)

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

the fog in the spooky area of Neopia Central VRChat has been textureless, a broken sheet of white, for five? months? but nobody told me u_u anyway it took longer for my PC to open unity than it took to fix the issue, so it's fixed now!

unity screenshot of a spooky graveyard and mansion in the neopets vrchat world. there is a layer of fog on the ground.

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Nathaniel Johnstone @nathanieljohnstone.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

TODAY IS THE DAY!!! My new band Field Of Embers has released their first single. Please go check it out! fieldofembers.bandcamp.com/track/harm-n... We will be going into the studio tomorrow and Monday to work on a few more songs so that we can release our first EP. OMG! I'm so stoked!

fieldofembers.bandcamp.com

Harm None, by Field of Embers

track by Field of Embers

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

if you’re selling neopets stuff at Sakuracon this weekend, please do let me know 👀

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

BRING [me] THE HORIZON (it was great!!)

photo of a punk-dressed moviegoer in the hallway of a movie theater, pointing up at a sign that reads "BRING THE HORIZON 3:00 Now Seating"

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

my sleep schedule is fifteen flavors of fucked :3

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a neopet🐀 @arttimo.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

it’s almost 3am and I’ve been in this ER waiting room for over four hours to diagnose this fucking headache I’ve had for a week there are three men in here and they are all moaning and saying “oh fuck” nonstop I’m never getting out of here s u f f e r i n g

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